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Chinwoke Mbadinuju, former governor of Anambra state (Image source:
TheCable)
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Chinwoke Mbadinuju, former governor of Anambra
state, has described Boko Haram insurgency as God’s punishment on Nigeria. Speaking
on Monday in Abuja while announcing his defection from the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mbadinuju said the
insurgency would not abate until the country embraces justice.
Mbadinuju
claimed “I believe Boko Haram is part of God’s judgment upon our country. The
insurgency will not abate until we embrace justice in the land. Sodom and
Gomorrah may soon be child’s play if care is not taken, and it is for this
reason that we know now that injustice begat corruption no matter how we paint
it.”
TheCable reports the
former Anambra State Executive Governor disclosed that he was dumping the PDP because of the
injustices in the party.
On
defecting to APC, he said: “It is necessary to join the APC now because it is
the right thing to do. While the APC has proved itself a promising party of
present and future, we can all see glaringly that everything good about the PDP
has since vanished. The
PDP became an unjust and unfair political party with no truth in its mouth, no
compassion in its heart, no sincerity in its purpose and its action always
intrinsically self-serving and deceitful.
“In
spite of the fact that as governor of Anambra state, I did my utmost best to
improve the lot of our people in a spate of four years, against a tremendous
but utterly needless opposition by members of the party in the state in
collaboration with the presidency in Abuja, I was the only serving governor
that the PDP unjustly denied its ticket for a second term.
“The party behaved as
if it never wronged me nor wronged the vast population of Anambrarians whose
lives I have touched while superintending the state as governor. Together with
our supporters, we were ignored and the government at the centre operated and
still operates as if PDP members never existed in Anambra state. Whosoever the
government patronized turned out to be dishonest or turned into a mediocre,
thus making dishonesty and mediocrity take the centre-stage of government and
politics in the country. We painfully endured it for long, hoping that with the
leadership things would also change. But from Obasanjo to Yar’Adua and to
Jonathan, nothing changed; if anything the situation kept getting worse and
worse.”
Mbadinuju
further stated that his decision to join the APC was informed by the need to
get the country out of its present “quagmire”.
“Obviously,
things cannot continue like that, lest society collapses. It is therefore the
responsibility, nay duty, of all God-fearing citizens and men of good standing
in our country to do something so as to get us out of the present national
quagmire,” he stated.
He added that he was giving
his “unflinching support” to the candidature of Muhammadu Buhari and called on
all Nigerians to vote for the APC in the 2015 general election.
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